In early August, three friends from Salt Lake City visited San Diego for the Metallica concert at Petco Park and two of them unknowingly went back home with hepatitis A. Mike Johnson, 43, was diagnosed with hepatitis A on Sept. 14th, a little more than a month after his trip to San Diego. His eyes […]

Los Angeles County interim health officer, Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is acting reckless and seems clueless with the Air Quality Management District’s air monitoring evaluations of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in Los Angeles County by blaming a single industry for the problem. Dr. Gunzenhauser recently noted, “Based on recent evaluations of hexavalent chromium [also known as chromium […]

Earlier last month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 239 (SB 239) that lowers the crime of knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing the infection from a felony to a misdemeanor. SB 239 will also apply to those who give blood without telling the blood bank that they are HIV-positive. According to […]

By: Hector M. Barajas Might you want to vilify a company, ban their product from the marketplace or force them to re-label a chemical as cancer causing so you can sue the hell out of them? WHO did, so now you can too. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) […]

To gauge the metallic emissions and potential air pollution in Los Angeles County, the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) began installing community monitoring devices and found two metals of concern: nickel and hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). In order to reduce the amount of hexavalent chromium, the SCAQMD decided arbitrarily to set an allowable limit […]

When it comes to our food supply, Americans don’t know how good we have it. A recent piece online – “21 Foods Made In China You Should Never Eat” – offers some grim examples of contaminated food imported from China – everything from chicken and vegetables to fish and fruit juices. Inspections have turned up […]

Over the past year, environmental activists involved with groups such as Safe Ag Safe Schools and Safe Strawberry Monterey County Working Group, have taken up the crusade to ban pesticides in California using missing and incomplete science. One such member, Carole Erickson, a retired and somewhat active Public Health Nurse/Educator, promoted here discredited study to […]

Earlier this month, officials warned against drinking Moscow mules from copper cups. The Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division (ABD) released a bulletin late last month warning bartenders and restaurants against serving the popular cocktail in copper mugs, as is traditional. As it turns out, copper mug could create a poisonous cocktail. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) […]

We hear so much about how organic food is the best option, and for some it is the only option they would ever go with when choosing food, because organic food is much healthier. Amazon’s recent acquisition of Whole Foods had food elites pushing for Amazon to change the nation’s food system. However, the vast […]

The number of new diseases that have emerged per decade has been increasing almost fourfold over the past 60 years. The number of outbreaks per year has more than tripled since 1980. The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently ranks H7N9, a bird flu strain that has been sweeping through China […]